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What is ICDI?
ICDI Mission and Vision
ICDI has four main expertise areas: 1. Child Protection 2. Early Childhood Care and Education 3. Child and Youth Participation 4. Newly Emerging Issues for Children and Young People
No child should be neglected
We, at ICDI, believe that all children and young people deserve the same rights and opportunities to realize their potential and to lead happy lives.
We jointly create new knowledge
Therefore we believe that people with relevant ideas, skills and commitment need to engage with the underlying causes of issues that children and young people face. ICDI stimulates knowledge transfer and exchange amongst child and youth care professionals and other people who play a role in the daily lives of children and young people. We build new knowledge on the experience of professionals and of children and young people, looking especially at their resilience capacity and original ways they find to cope and transform their lives against odds.
We work together
We bring together people from different educational backgrounds, fields of work and walks of life; people who share a passion for, and interest in things that are important for and to children and young people. We do this so that we can jointly develop inspiring ideas and feasible strategies on how to improve children and young people’s lives and futures.
We promote children’s and young people’s participation
We support children and young people to be meaningfully involved in all manners regarding their lives as their inputs are vital in understanding and overcoming the problems they face. We strongly uphold their right for their opinion to be heard and taken seriously.
We do things differently
We also believe in doing things a bit differently. In a fast paced, globalized world solutions need to be based both on solid, contextualized knowledge of children’s development, as well as being ground-breaking and flexible. We focus on strengths and assets and on that which promotes the healthy development and well-being of children and young people. To this end, we utilize a mix of research, policy development, network building and training tools. We build on local capacities, create equal, professional partnerships between people and organizations, and strengthen social relationships, equity and solidarity.
And, oh yeah, we love our work!
ICDI has four main expertise areas: 1. Child Protection 2. Early Childhood Care and Education 3. Child and Youth Participation 4. Newly Emerging Issues for Children and Young People
